Innocent Bystanders

I have a brother-in-law that is a black-belt jujitsu master with stool jokes. “Push in your stool.” “Pull out your stool.” “Turn your stools over and put them on your desks” etc. No mention of “stool” goes by unnoticed or without a crude (and, I’m afraid to admit, funny) joke.

Joe Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor, argued for and won the highest bail ever in the county–$10 million each–for a couple accused of murdering their three year old foster son Marcus.

Severely autistic, Marcus’ arms were taped behind his back with packing tape; he was rolled into a blanket and thrown into a closet while his foster parents went to a family reunion. They returned two DAYS later to find Marcus dead.

Deters, at the couple’s arraignment, stood opposite the foster father and, in Deter’s words on 700WLW today “engaged in eyeball fornication with the accused.”

Eyeball fornication. Any warrior here care to translate?

There is evil in this world; and the innocent, like little Marcus, need warriors to protect them. Deters is pushing hard for the death penalty and said “there will be a fistfight in my office to see who gets to escort these two animals to Death Row.”

Stung by criticism, Burns swiftly backtracked and admitted that not all terrorists drive taxis during the day. Many others cook flat bread or carry large loads on their heads. Those who have received advanced training in Afghanistan may also sell bootleg CDs.

There’s a number of new emails in there from Ace’s tipsters. If you’re not too busy today please take a peek. If you decide to take a tip, please reply to the tipster with your screen name and that will avoid any duplicate posts between us.

Something keeps telling me to post this. It could be because I’m a big C.S. Lewis fan. Nevertheless it seems very timely.

First a quote by Mr. Lewis: (H/T to HayZeus for finding it for me).

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.”

I received this column from David Warren via email:

…The case of the two Fox News journalists, held hostage in Gaza, is worth dwelling upon. They were released after their captors had made tapes of them dressed as Arabs and announcing they had changed their names and converted to Islam.

Lately I have been looking at the large — at how the West is proving unable to cope with a threat from a fanatical Islamic movement, that it ought to be able to snuff out with fair ease… But the large is often most visible in the small.

It’s a pretty good diagnosis of the reasons why the terrorists made the journalists convert to Islam.

Why did Fatah bother to make the video? Didn’t they realize conversion under duress means nothing? That no one, East or West, would take it at face value?

They didn’t make it for face value. They made it to show the whole Muslim world, via satellite television, what wimps these Westerners are. That they’ll do anything at all to save their lives, that they don’t think twice about it. That is the substance of most Islamo-fascist propaganda: that the West consists of straw men, of men without chests, of men easily pushed over…

As part of my on-going efforts to bring some scintilla of culture to you gutter-dwelling heathen, I now present to you Act 2, scene 3 of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, as performed by the Royal Scottish Llamas. Funding for this performance is in part from the generous donations of Steve and Robbo, who contributed the money they usually spend on brandy snifters, smoking jackets for the average Saturday evening.

MADRID (AFP) – Some 40,000 Spaniards were gathering in the eastern town of Bunol ready to create a ‘human gazpacho,’ hurling some 100 000 kilograms (220,000 pounds) of tomatoes at one another to mark La Tomatina, surely one of the world’s messiest festivals.

Madcap fans from around the world converge on the normally sleepy town on the last Wednesday of August, many clad in waterproof capes to stave off the onslaught of juice and pulp in a manic free-for-all believed to have begun life as an argument between two carnival participants in 1945.